Howdy everyone! I'm Chris Bostick, a junior general biology major in the college of agriculture and life sciences. I do recall back in my angsty teenage days using blogs to communicate feelings to friends, but it all seems so riddiculous now haha. My interest include games, playing guitar, watching movies, and anything else fun i guess. I'm from Central Jersey about 4 hours south of Ithaca.
A phenomenon that really interest me is peoples behavior on the web, with my specific experience in online games. I've played some online shooters which Wallace would describe as metaworld with highly detailed characters and worlds. It is interesting because you can play on the same team with someone far across the world, but i've found that a lot of people use that fact to say very aggressive and hurtful things. The knowledge that almost no matter what you say you will face no serious reprucussions tempts many people to push the limits of political correctness. I'm curious to the boundaries of which the internet acts as an un-goverened mass of people who are free to do what they want.
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Oops hit the publish button to soon! Didn't word count first. So the boldness of online game players ranges from minor insults, to racial slurs, all the way up to threats on the real life of a person. Although some games do have a violent nature, I don’t feel it constitutes this behavior, and I agree with Wallace in the belief that these people would not act any way close to this in real life situations. But at the same time its weird how if any of these things were said in person it wouldn’t be such a small deal, for instance if one were to say any of these things in a school setting the punishment could be severe. It almost answers the question of what would you do if you knew you could get away with it, and the answer is shocking. That’s all I have to say for now.
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